Thanks to Loran for writing in with today's theme idea. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention some sort of medical ailment or symptom?

When thinking back to last year’s inaugural FEMN Fest, co-producer Abigail Mlinar remembers there being “love in the room every night.” The Duluth festival returns Sept. 21-22 for its second year and includes a lineup of female-identifying musicians, educators, and vendors. It is an unconventional music festival that acts, in the words of Mlinar, as “an opportunity…

For this week's Rock & Roll Book Club, Jay Gabler brought us Jason Heller's "Strange Stars" which is a book about David Bowie, pop music, and the decade sci-fi exploded. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have a sci-fi element to them?

In 'Strange Stars,' Jason Heller chronicles the many ways in which science fiction suffused popular music in the 1970s.

Jack White plays the Armory in Minneapolis on Monday, Aug. 6. Ahead of that show, Mary Lucia talks to Brian Oake about their shared fandom of Jack White, as well as Brian's experience seeing Jack White perform at the Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta earlier this year.

The singer and guitarist fields comments from listeners about her music and talks about the ways her songs can be interpreted.

Rudy Giuliani took to Twitter Sunday morning and mysteriously posted the word "You". Let's finish that phrase for him. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that say "You...something something"?

Today in 1968, The Beatles closed their Apple Boutique in London after seven months of business, giving away all their stock to passing strangers and to Apple staff. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from musicians who are also entrepreneurs - whether by owning brick and mortar stores, selling an item or brand, investing in a performance venue, etc.?

Most of Dessa‘s 2018 album Chime concerns romantic relationships (“Boy Crazy,” “Half Of You”) or gumption (“5 Out Of 6,” “Shrimp”). But its final track, “I Hope I’m Wrong,” mourns a woman named Jeanette. This woman, Dessa’s grandmother, forfeited some dreams and suffered her losses — but according to Dessa, she “stayed worldly and curious” until…

As I stood on the pavilion at Bayfront Festival Park, waiting to watch Duluth mayor Emily Larson take the stage with Jade and our Duluth Local Show host Mike Novitzki, I complimented her on the pithy, well-received response to a disparaging recent feature in Rolling Stone. She nodded. “It felt good,” she said. Rolling Stone’s…